diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index fad412f..fdcf43e 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 
   <body>
     <release version="1.4" date="TBA" description="TBA">
+      <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-252" dev="tn" type="fix">DiskFileItem#write() could lose original IO exception</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-258" dev="tn" type="fix">DiskFileItem#getStoreLocation() wrongly returned a File object for items stored in memory</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-242" dev="tn" type="fix">FileUploadBase - should not silently catch and ignore all Throwables</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-257" dev="tn" type="fix">Fix Javadoc 1.8.0 errors</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
index f19082a..c3b0c3e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
@@ -389,9 +389,7 @@
                 fout = new FileOutputStream(file);
                 fout.write(get());
             } finally {
-                if (fout != null) {
-                    fout.close();
-                }
+            	IOUtils.closeQuietly(fout);
             }
         } else {
             File outputFile = getStoreLocation();